The bulls and bears of cricket

The question is to hold Sachin or to sell him? Will selling Yuvraj at the current rate be the right decision?

If you think the above questions are those asked by an IPL Franchise owner than you have not yet explored Cricket Stock Exchange, or CricStock.

CrickStock is an online trading game that works on the lines of a real life stock market. It was launched ahead of the last ICC Cricket World Cup in 2007 to engage the cricket lovers of the world with the game even more.

This virtual market place has shares of cricketers, also called player-stocks, listed on the bourse. The users are allowed to trade in these shares or player-stocks. Like a company’s results decide its share price movement in the stock market, a player’s recent performance governs the movement of stock prices of the cricketer.

His performance on field is reflected in the price his share fetches and it also indicates what the fans are expecting out of the player.

The prices of the out of form cricketers are battered pretty badly across teams. This is a safe and legal way of having some virtual cricketing fun of a different as there is no real money involved. All transactions are done using virtual money.

CricStock has the shares of all international cricketers on the exchange and to buy shares a person needs to registration on the website. Registered users also enjoy dividends for the player stocks they hold depending upon actual performance of cricketers in ongoing matches. Rest all the other rules are like that on a real stock market.